Prof. Dr. Ira Diethelm has been a professor of didactics and informatics at the University of Oldenburg since 2011. From 2010 to 2012, she was also vice-director of the Centre for Didactics at the same university, and from 2008 to 2011, she held the university’s endowed chair for Informatics in Education. From 2006 through 2009, she held several lecturing positions, and was a guest researcher at the Technische Universität Braunschweig. From 2003 through 2008, Diethelm was a research associate in software engineering at the University of Kassel, and from 2001 through 2008 she taught mathematics, chemistry, and computer science at the Gausßschule high school (Gymnasium) in Braunschweig.